When Tarence Bailey Sr. received a formal memo from the Maryland National Guard declining to support a celebration for Frederick Douglass on Saturday, it felt personal.

Chesnutt’s fiction, in novels such as “The Marrow of Tradition,” and his biography of Frederick Douglass, the first, explored the fraught history of the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras. Audre Lorde ...

From Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick, the achievements of Black athletes have had a role in advancing civil rights.

Black History Month is one of the most significant means a beautiful and noble people has to express and share themselves ...

President Donald Trump welcomed attendees to the White House Thursday to celebrate Black History and announced the planned ...

This year’s Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor,” focusing on the ways work impacts “the collective experiences of Black people,” according to the Association for the Study of ...

Why is Black History Month in February? The commemoration of important Black Americans and events happens largely during the ...

Black historian Carter J. Woodson proposed a week to recognize the accomplishments of Black Americans, aligning it with the ...

Since 1976, every February has officially been designated as Black History Month. This February, stop by the library and give ...

JACKSON, Mich. (WILX) - Wednesday Jackson College celebrated black history month with a special commemoration. The college ...

Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the ...

In 1926, a week was dedicated to honoring the contributions of African Americans to the nation. This initiative, initiated by ...